[IMP] SEE BELOW.

- Support for shared libraries inside a process.
- SMP improvements, add the PROCESS_CONTROL_BLOCK, to handle task
  switching.
- Add MUST_PASS in HardwareTimer class.
- Add rtl.internal.inl for SCM internal implementation.

Signed-off-by: Amlal EL Mahrouss <amlalelmahrouss@icloud.com>

3 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/Kernel/KernelKit/PEFSharedObject.hxx b/Kernel/KernelKit/PEFSharedObject.hxx
index f8119971..d490c567 100644
--- a/Kernel/KernelKit/PEFSharedObject.hxx
+++ b/Kernel/KernelKit/PEFSharedObject.hxx
@@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ namespace Kernel
 	};
 
 	typedef SharedObject* SharedObjectPtr;
+
+	EXTERN_C SharedObjectPtr rtl_init_shared_object(ProcessHeader* header);
+	EXTERN_C Void			 rtl_fini_shared_object(ProcessHeader* header, SharedObjectPtr lib, Bool* successful);
 } // namespace Kernel
 
 #endif /* ifndef __KERNELKIT_SHARED_OBJECT_HXX__ */
+
diff --git a/Kernel/KernelKit/ProcessHeap.hxx b/Kernel/KernelKit/ProcessHeap.hxx
index 7772398e..377e6009 100644
--- a/Kernel/KernelKit/ProcessHeap.hxx
+++ b/Kernel/KernelKit/ProcessHeap.hxx
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 /// @version 5/11/23
 /// @file ProcessHeap.hxx
-/// @brief Heap for user processes.
+/// @brief Process heap allocator.
 
 #define kUserHeapMaxSz (4096)
 #define kUserHeapMag   (0xFAF0FEF0)
@@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ namespace Kernel
 	} kUserHeapFlags;
 
 	/// @brief Allocate a process heap, no zero out is done here.
-	/// @param flags
+	/// @param flags the allocation flags.
 	/// @return The process's heap.
-	VoidPtr rt_new_heap(Int32 flags);
+	VoidPtr sched_new_heap(Int32 flags);
 
 	/// @brief Frees the process heap.
 	/// @param pointer The process heap pointer.
-	/// @return
-	Int32 rt_free_heap(voidPtr pointer);
+	/// @return status code of the freeing.
+	Int32 sched_free_heap(voidPtr pointer);
 } // namespace Kernel
diff --git a/Kernel/KernelKit/ProcessScheduler.hxx b/Kernel/KernelKit/ProcessScheduler.hxx
index 5c27af79..b174858a 100644
--- a/Kernel/KernelKit/ProcessScheduler.hxx
+++ b/Kernel/KernelKit/ProcessScheduler.hxx
@@ -36,10 +36,11 @@ namespace Kernel
 	//! @brief Process name length.
 	inline constexpr SizeT kProcessLen = 256U;
 
-	//! @brief Forward declaration.
+	//! @brief Forward declarations.
 	class ProcessHeader;
 	class ProcessScheduler;
 	class ProcessHelper;
+	class SharedObject;
 
 	//! @brief Process status enum.
 	enum class ProcessStatus : Int32
@@ -144,7 +145,7 @@ namespace Kernel
 		const Int32& GetExitCode() noexcept;
 
 	public:
-		Char			   Name[kProcessLen] = {"Process"};
+		Char			   Name[kProcessLen] = {"Unknown Process"};
 		ProcessSubsystem   SubSystem{ProcessSubsystem::eProcessSubsystemInvalid};
 		ProcessSelector	   Selector{ProcessSelector::kRingUser};
 		HAL::StackFramePtr StackFrame{nullptr};
@@ -156,7 +157,10 @@ namespace Kernel
 		ImagePtr	Image{nullptr};
 		HeapPtrKind HeapPtr{nullptr};
 
-		// memory usage
+		// shared library handle, reserved for .lib only.
+		SharedObject* SharedLibObjectPtr{nullptr};
+
+		// Memory usage.
 		SizeT UsedMemory{0};
 		SizeT FreeMemory{0};